News Archives - 2004

Crime in Genoa City

Terror Alert: Evildoer Breaks Into Little Shop of Horrors!

September 30, 2004

"I just don't understand. We've had one of those Paul Williams alarm systems installed here for years yet that crazy managed to somehow bypass it, haul in bushels of rose pedals and all without anyone noticing," a bedazzled Lauren Fenmore might have said Thursday had she actually had any comment on how the crazed lunatic Kevin Fisher got into her Little Shop of Horrors overnight.

The break-in was almost as bizarre as how Fisher got into the RoadKill Cafe last year at this time. In that case all Fisher had to do was hide until the hired help had left and then unlock the front door without so much as having to enter a security code. How Fisher got into the horror shop was not immediately known, but given the quality of Williams' alarm systems, and that the private investigator by the same name sells them on the side from his office in-a-box, it came as no surprise. There were no reports of a similar break-in or theft of rose pedals from local flower shops, however.

Failing to call police, Fenmore did summon her newest boyfriend so that Michael Baldwin could hear for the umpteenth time what a sicko his brother is and that something must be done. It was agreed that Fenmore will be the one wearing the pants in their relationship and that she will do the manly thing by telling Fisher what she should have told him all along: he has no hope of getting a woman twice his age in bed. Fisher might, however, give Mary Williams a try.

Weaseling out like always, Baldwin said he'd play the girlie man by helping Fisher get over Fenmore. Then, as if emerging like a flame from the fires of Hell, Baldwin told Fenmore she's the best thing to ever happen to him since the creepy Christine 'Bug' Blair - which isn't saying much except as to warn those who are being - and have been - regularly duped and brutalized by these mismatched relationships that they haven't seen the last of Kevin Fisher.

Adoption Agency Will Probe Crime?
August 31, 2004

by Brent Kellogg

Isn't it funny how a young girl was drugged and nearly raped at the Victor Newman Memorial Center and not a single police officer appeared at the scene to so much as file a report? Like many cities across the nation right now telling its residents that due to a manpower shortage its police no longer respond to low priority crimes, is this happening in Genoa City too? Or could it be that the GCPD decided to let the victim's family members get their man? Do police feel that with her track record of getting into locked apartments and orchid stealing and blackmail Dru Winters could solve the crime much faster? Mrs. Winters has said that if she gets to the perp first he'll never see the inside of a jail. And too, Neil Winters has enlisted the help of those pitchfork-wielding teens to track down the person responsible for what happened to Lily Winters.

And where was ace police detective Hank Weber? Usually trudging around the streets of Genoa City waiting for crime to happen as he did last year when Izzy Williams disappeared, Weber was on the scene like flies on a dead horse. No sooner had 911 been called but Hanky on the Nose had already assigned himself to the case.

What about the Winters clan? Don't they think it odd that the cops aren't investigating their precious daughter's case and why haven't they called the cops? Why hasn't the Winter's puppy dog, Devon Hamilton - so suddenly concerned about his newly adopted step-sister or whatever they call foster kid siblings - asked why the police haven't been notified? Is it because kids like Devon can't pronounce orientation and can't go to the finest schools like Walnut Grove Academy to learn the Queen's English?

Why hasn't Victor Newman - so concerned that the Winters' kid experience at his newly opened wreck center may have tarnished his image - called his pals at the cop shop to demand the finest officer on the force be assigned the case? Why has Newman apparently settled for a clueless private investigator to accomplish this goal although he has yet to reach Paul Williams?

What are local residents to think? Has their police department abandoned them?

The answer is: no!

Lorena Davis, Genoa City's resident parole/probation officer/one-woman adoption agency is on the case!

This is not a hallucination.

Indeed, the traveling, making house calls late at night and tracking down pesky wannabe foster parents who don't fill out the reams of paperwork correctly, showed up at the God Have Mercy Medical Center on Tuesday to tell Mr. Winters, "I want you to know we're looking into what happened at the rec center" and that Mr. Winters would not have to fret. Unlike the investigation into who broke into J.T. Hellstrom's apartment last year, the who drugged Lily Winters case, "will not be dropped."

That a probation/parole officer would say what Davis said goes beyond the wildest imagination given that probation and parole departments in large cities (which Genoa City prides itself on being and in fact is so large as to have an international airport) are deluged with problems of their own. These departments do not by any stretch investigate or "look into" current crimes unless they are connected with a parolee or person on probation.

For a foster care worker to say what Davis said is believable only in the minds of those hanging down in Tijuana slamming back tequila shooters and annoying the waitresses, all while praising Jesus they don't live in Genoa City. In other words, what Davis said, what she is, what she does, is something only a bad fiction writer on crack could dream up.